“If you wish to work with us, you will need more journeys that focus on your healing and not only on universal truths. Only once you are physically strong will you be able to incorporate these lessons and use them.” – The Grandmothers through Sharon McErlane in “A Call to Power”, around p. 54

This is the same mistake we all do: rushing to understand spiritual truth without attending to the “root” – the physical body, everyday life, yin-power. The Grandmother’s message is all about slowing down and going deeper, so it makes perfect sense that they would tell Sharon to attend to her healing before zooming off into spiritual understanding in an ungrounded way. In the Grandmothers’ work, the path truly is the destination.

There truly is nowhere to get to. There is no need to rush, to do big, to make a big impression. Those all come from the ego and excessive yang. As I grow in this work, my Grandmothers’ group has even gotten smaller and smaller, often turning into a one-on-one session. Those private sessions have been precious and meaningful. If I had been measuring my progress by the business model – what the numbers are, how much, how fast – I would feel like I was doing something wrong. But when I look at the gentle transformation of the people in the group, I know the Grandmothers are doing good work with us and vice versa.

Today, notice your own tendency to rush – to rush your healing, to rush a relationship, to rush something you are building work-wise, even to rush the development of your own children and of course your own development. But this doesn’t make any sense. Do you rush the growth of the tree outside your window? Of course not, you just let it be and do its thing. Why should your personal growth, or the growth of something you wish to build or help improve, go any faster than the organic world?

Golden Eagle Feather

Golden eagle feathers are used in Native American ceremonies. The Grandmothers gave me the name "Golden Eagle Feather" before I knew anything about golden eagles. I'm growing into the name slowly. I offer my words here to anyone seeking love, rest and connection to the Divine.

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